Black and White Photography

I got a few photos that converted to interesting black and whites in photoshop. I think I prefer to work in color.

Click here to see some more images I took for the Black and White assignment.

Artificial Lighting

I brought out the the $20 Home Depot lights from last year to do the assignment. It's so much work setting up the lights. I'd rather just take pictures in available light with fill flash.

Architecture Assignment

This week we are taking indoor and outdoor architecture photographs. Tony showed images from the web site of Hedrich Blessing, a firm in Chicago that specializes in architectural photography. I got some ideas and inspiration from their work. I got a few fairly decent photos this week.




Click here to see more of the architecture images.

Below is a photo I took for a photo editing 

class I took in the summer of 2010.

Landscape Assignment

This week we're taking landscape photos. For all the thousands of photos I've taken over the years I have very few good landscape images. If there is no barn, windmill, lighthouse, or boat, I usually don't bother taking the picture. Here is one of the better landscape images I've taken on my trips and I put in my book.

Photo Story

This week the assignment for my digital photography class was to take a series of photos that tell a story. I took photos of of two crews widening Olive Street. Keeping out of the way of the workers and standing only in safe areas are real important. It reminded me a lot about how I used to take photos of Texas ranches back in the 70's. Here is a page from the book I wrote about the trips I've made.


Click here to see the images I took for the Photo Story assignment.

Portraits in Class

Today in photography class we took portraits of some of the class associates. Tony gave us some great tips on how to work with people to get better portraits.

Vintage Travel Poster

For our final project in the photo editing class I took last summer we had to create a vintage travel poster. I tried to recreate a 1950's look before the TWA Jet Set posters of the 60's became the rage.

Summer 2010 Trip

When summer semester ended I went to New England to see my brother and sister. It was a great time. On the return trip I went down the Jersey Shore, took the ferry across Delaware Bay, and drove down the coast to Ocean City and Virginia Beach. Here are some places I went:

National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton OH

Wright Brothers National Memorial and Visitor Center, Dayton OH

Mashantucket Pequot Museum, Mashantucket CT

Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum, Windsor CT

Lowell National Historical Park, Lowell MA

Black Pond Nature Preserve, Norwell MA a deep glacial kettle hole surrounded by a bog, Atlantic cedar swamp, red maple swamp and a pine – oak forest.

Jersey Shore at Wildwood NJ

Cape May Ferry across Delaware Bay

Beach at Ocean City MD

Nassawango Iron Furnace, Nassawango Preserve of The Nature Conservancy, Nassawango Swamp, Pocomke Forest and Pocomoke Swamp, Snow Hill MD

Virginia Cooperative Extension, Northampton County Office

Barrier Islands Center, Machipongo VA

Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond VA

Drewry’s Bluff Battle Site, Richmond VA

Cold Harbor Battle Site, Richmond VA

Monticello

Shenandoah National Park Skyline Drive from Rockfish Gap to Swift Run Gap

Summer School

This summer I'm taking photo-editing again with Mike Swoboda. Here is the first version of the portrait project we are doing.